I Wasted My First Life and My Second Chance Came with the Skill I Should Have Picked First

Rina scans a line of midnight shoppers, and every one of them leaves with a truth she did not ask for. She works a fantasy market counter, reads fortunes that always come true, and has spent twelve years steering strangers with careful words. The real trouble is her own life. She can feel the instant a bond changes shape, down to the chill in her fingers, and she has been watching one bond for three years without naming it. Then her family drags her back to the house she fled, where the old rooms remember the girl she was and the woman she became. The person she trusts most still knows where she hurts.